2006-06-22T16:00:08ZFluxBBhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=22229Hi invernomuto after quiet some time now i've decided to check my pakman tread and spoted your comment, any how the thing is that curently i've kind of moved to gnome so i dont really work on pakman any more.i've tried to download your sources or see some scrennshots but with no lock, i've saw some comments in here about the pacman conf, basicly what i was doing to solve this issue is having 2 different conf files, the gui app conf file which is per user, and my own global copy of pakman.conf ( /etc/pakman.conf )since pakman is really a frontend to alpm and not to pacman, with in this file i used kde kconfig format with some nice tricks which let me knows whice repos had been enabled and so on...

about the name, since i'm not really work on it any more and my pakman can only run on FW i dont see any reason why shouldnt u use the name pakman.

one last thing about my pakman, i actually done some nice work with it and i encourege u to try it out on FW, it is doing the job so fast that it's really a joy to work with it, u can enable disable repos on the fly even without the need to refreash, it features a system tray icon and some nice informative splash screen, and there is some really nice colorfull loging dialog that appears after any actions if the user check the loging option.

some Q i would like to know about your work, do u use libalpm to do the task or pacman?

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=55522006-06-22T16:00:08Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=172243#p172243I don't have KDE installed atm so I can't test it, but it looks nice on the screenshots. But on this screenshot I think there's a typo:http://www.brainspace.it/images/stories … stall1.png

At the bottom it says "founded 2509 packages", I think it's supposed to be "found"?

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=46802006-06-17T15:59:21Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=171423#p171423Project name is changed from paKman to Yapg (Yet Another Pacman Gui).]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=59752006-06-17T15:31:12Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=171421#p171421No problemo... I was aware and made a backup of my pacman.conf before ]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=56952006-06-15T22:24:54Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=171162#p171162funkyou:

I'm sorry for the pacman's configuration file rewriting. I've tested it on my system and it don't give me any problem.
pakman need to rewite config file because pacman.conf doesn't respect a KDE configuration file format editable thru KConfig class of KDE's libraries. In pacman.con there are some duplicated entries for NoUpgrade entries and KConfig clas read only the last entry. So paKman try to rebuld pacman.conf without duplicates but, evidently, there are something wrong . :cry:

arooaroo's idea is very good. paKman could be save a pacman's configuration file copy changed by user in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/paKman/pacman.conf and use --config option when invoke pacman.
May be a good solution?

This is the original /etc/pacman.conf content (if someone want restore it after paKman's changes)

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=59752006-06-14T11:30:54Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=170866#p170866I noticed that his options screenshots were such that they would be doing more than just reading pacman.conf. It's not the approach that I would take, but then again, I see the advantage for some people wishing to configure pacman through a GUI too.

I think it's possible to save these settings in their own preferences file, and them use them with the various pacman arguments.

So, rather than overwriting the IgnorePkg field, just store packages to ignore somewhere and when you call pacman, use --ignore arguments, for example.

From the technical point of view:It has messed up my pacman.conf... Before i had a standard non-altered pacman.conf, and your app rewrote it and i had some errors with the repos, something like that the database for current can not be found... So why does it rewrite that file? Maybe it could just read the settings from it...

Anyway, this app looks very promising to me and i will keep an eye on it, keep up the good work

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=59752006-06-11T13:06:29Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=170334#p170334Do you have a PKGBUILD we could use?]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=14742006-06-10T21:50:27Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=170218#p170218

Good work, although there are now 2 C++/KDE pacman frontends that have just started and it seems like a good idea to collaborate.

It is the best way, for me.

Another thing to do, is a svn ( or cvs ) repo: the developers can made modify and share it with the community. But of this we have just talked

For the modify, you can use a combination of find / grep / awk + regular expression.

Regards

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=63392006-06-10T15:34:37Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=170151#p170151Thank you much!
As you have seen paKman gui is strongly inspired by Jacman (for me the best pacman frontend...after my paKman ....sorry I joke ).
I've created gui subdiveded by operation type with long description because I have thought paKman for a beginner user who need a gui: clear, user frendly nad with a good look and feel.
I have proposed to other pacman-fontends's creators to colaborate. See this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … c&start=20Working together we can create a great pacman frontend to approach users with small linux/arch experience to our fantastic distro! (Another project I've started ,but now is freeze, is a graphical installer such as gentoo installer but in KDE/Qt)]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=59752006-06-10T08:41:58Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=170102#p170102As a fellow pacman frontend developer, I praise your efforts. I like the fact that you have organised the interface into 'tasks' - which similar to the approach I used for Jacman. I think this is much more intuitive that the all-in-one interfaces of the Synaptic clones (although, that's just my opinion, I know others love it).

That said, I think you could streamline your interface a bit. The "buttons" are very large because they contain a long description. These could be moved in to tooltips, for example. Also, I think the Ignore Packages looks a bit awkward and it's location in the Control Center doesn't seem obvious to me on first glance.

Good work, although there are now 2 C++/KDE pacman frontends that have just started and it seems like a good idea to collaborate.

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=27602006-06-09T16:43:38Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=169996#p169996I'm not a KDE user, but this looked really promissing. I liked how good it integrated into KDE!]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=47012006-06-09T14:07:40Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=169968#p169968